The first challenge to the new Congress' Republican leadership is coming from within.

Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and Rep. Ted Yoho from Florida both recently announced they will take on Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday for leadership of the GOP-dominated House of Representatives. Their bids, which are considered long-shots, come just months after Boehner led House Republicans to pick up even more seats during midterm elections. But Gohmert and Yoho are prominent right-wing politicians who are likely to distract Republican lawmakers, many of whom are eager to prove they can govern competently now that they control the House and the Senate.

Gohmert and Yoho are both favored by the Tea Party, which may give them a lot of attention without much support from mainstream Republicans. But neither is a stranger to headlines. They've both made news in the recent past with several eye-popping quotes, some of which we've rounded up, below.

LOUIE GOHMERT

In this photo taken on June 20, 2014, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speaks during Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority event in Washington.

In this April 2013 quote, he was talking about the Obama administration, not the former Egyptian administration led by Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi.

2. “I’ve had people say ‘hey, there’s nothing wrong with gays in the military, look at the Greeks.’ Well, they did have people come along who they loved who were the same sex, who would give them massages before they went into battle. But you know what? It’s a different kind of fighting, it’s a different kind of war, and if you’re sitting around getting massages all day, then you’re not going to last very long."

The Congressman aired his thoughts on gay members of the military in this interview from October 2014.

3. "So when [caribou] want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline. ... So my real concern now [is] if oil stops running through the pipeline ... do we need a study to see how adversely the caribou would be affected if that warm oil ever quit flowing?"

Gohmert wanted to keep oil flowing through a pipeline in Alaska, so he threw on his animal husbandry hat and launched into a speech on caribou dating at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing in 2012.

4. “We’re going to borrow more money from the Chinese—to possibly give them money back—to create habitats for wild dogs and cats that are rare. There’s no assurance that if we did that, we wouldn’t end up with, moo-goo dog pan or moo-goo cat pan.”

In April, 2009, the Congressman talked about his version of Chinese food at a House hearing.

5. "You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place. ... We've threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God's name, they're going to be jailed ... I mean that kind of stuff."

When James Holmes killed 12 people in 2012 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, Gohmert thought the attack had something to do with America's lack of Christian values.

6. "[The children] could be raised and coddled as future terrorists [and] 20, 30 years down the road, they can be sent in to help destroy our way of life."

Gohmert has a theory that terrorists will come to the United States, have children and raise them to attack America from inside. This theory has no supporting evidence, which becomes clear during this tantrum Gohmert throws while talking to Anderson Cooper in 2010:

TED YOHO

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Florida, third from left, on Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

This was Ted Yoho, talking about what would happen if the U.S. hadn't raised its debt ceiling in late 2013.

2. “I talked to a guy that works with Hezbollah — they call him the 007 of Hezbollah — they call him and find out he’s brought over 1,500 people here illegally that don’t like us, they want to blow us up.”

Yoho spoke on a range of topics at a town hall meeting in August 2013, even talking about members of Hezbollah crossing into the U.S. to attack it from inside. This theory has been discredited.

This hint of an idea, at the same town hall meeting, was received with some applause.

4. “He says, 'there’s 50 million starving people in America today.' I disagree with that. I think there’s 330 million people starving, at least three times a day. We call it breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

Yoho, again at the town hall, was describing a disagreement he had with a fellow member of Congress. What he meant by his supposed joke is somewhat unclear, but his position on whether hunger is a problem in the U.S. is apparent.

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